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This should be required reading in every school and college in our country. This Captain, an Army doctor, deserves a medal himself for putting this together. If you choose not to pass it on, fine, but I think you will want to, after you read it.

I am a doctor specializing in the Emergency Departments of the only two military Level One-Trauma Centers, both in San Antonio, TX and they care for civilian Emergencies as well as military personnel. San Antonio has the largest military retiree population in the world living here. As a military doctor, I work long hours and the pay is less than glamorous. One tends to become jaded by the long hours, lack of sleep, food, family contact and the endless parade of human suffering passing before you. The arrival of another ambulance does not mean more pay, only more work. Most often, it is a victim from a motor vehicle crash.

Often it is a person of dubious character who has been shot or stabbed. With our large military retiree population, it is often a nursing home patient. Even with my enlisted service and minimal combat experience in Panama, I have caught myself groaning when the ambulance brought in yet another sick, elderly person from one of the local retirement centers that cater to military retirees. I had not stopped to think of what citizens of this age group represented.

I saw 'Saving Private Ryan.' I was touched deeply. Not so much by the carnage, but by the sacrifices of so many. I was touched most by the scene of the elderly survivor at the graveside, asking his wife if he'd been a good man. I realized that I had seen these same men and women coming through my Emergency Dept.. and had not realized what magnificent sacrifices they had made. The things they did for me and everyone else that has lived on this planet since the end of that conflict are priceless.

Situation permitting, I now try to ask my patients about their experiences. They would never bring up the subject without the inquiry. I have been privileged to an amazing array of experiences, recounted in the brief minutes allowed in an Emergency Dept. encounter. These experiences have revealed the incredible individuals I have had the honor of serving in a medical capacity, many on their last admission to the hospital.

There was a frail, elderly woman who reassured my young enlisted medic, trying to start an IV line in her arm. She remained calm and poised, despite her illness and the multiple needle-sticks into her fragile veins. She was what we call a 'hard stick.' As the medic made another attempt, I noticed a number tattooed across her forearm. I touched it with one finger and looked into her eyes. She simply said, 'Auschwitz.' Many of later generations would have loudly and openly berated the young medic in his many attempts. How different was the response from this person who'd seen unspeakable suffering.

Also, there was this long retired Colonel, who as a young officer had parachuted from his burning plane over a Pacific Island held by the Japanese. Now an octogenarian, he had a minor cut on his head from a fall at his home where he lived alone. His CT scan and suturing had been delayed until after midnight by the usual parade of high priority ambulance patients.. Still spry for his age, he asked to use the phone to call a taxi, to take him home, then he realized his ambulance had brought him without his wallet. He asked if he could use the phone to make a long distance call to his daughter who lived 7 miles away. With great pride we told him that he could not, as he'd done enough for his country and the least we could do was get him a taxi home, even if we had to pay for it ourselves. My only regret was that my shift wouldn't end for several hours and I couldn't drive him myself.

I was there the night M/Sgt Roy Benavidez came through the Emergency Dept. for the last time. He was very sick. I was not the doctor taking care of him, but I walked to his bedside and took his hand. I said nothing. He was so sick, he didn't know I was there. I'd read his Congressional Medal of Honor citation and wanted to shake his hand. He died a few days later.

The gentleman who served with Merrill's Marauders,

the survivor of the Bataan Death March,

the survivor of Omaha Beach,

the 101 year old World War I veteran.

The former POW held in frozen North Korea

The former Special Forces medic - now with non-operable liver cancer

the former Viet Nam Corps Commander.

I remember these citizens

I may still groan when yet another ambulance comes in, but now I am much more aware of what an honor it is to serve these particular men and women.

I have seen a Congress who would turn their back on these individuals who've sacrificed so much to protect our liberty. I see later generations that seem to be totally engrossed in abusing these same liberties, won with such sacrifice.

It has become my personal endeavor to make the nurses and young enlisted medics aware of these amazing individuals when I encounter them in our Emergency Dept. Their response to these particular citizens has made me think that perhaps all is not lost in the next generation.

My experiences have solidified my belief that we are losing an incredible generation, and this nation knows not what it is losing. Our uncaring government and ungrateful civilian populace should all take note. We should all remember that we must 'Earn this.'

Written By CAPT. Stephen R. Ellison, M.D. US Army

If it weren't for the United States Military,there'd be NO United States of America!

One percent transaction tax is proposed
President Obama's finance team is recommending a transaction tax. His plan is to sneak it in after the November election to keep it under the radar. This is a 1% tax on all transactions at any financial institution i. e. Banks, Credit Unions, etc.. Any deposit you make, or move around within your account, i. e. transfer to, will have a 1% tax charged. If your pay check or your social Security or whatever is direct deposit, 1% tax charged. If you hand carry a check in to deposit, 1% tax charged, If you take cash in to deposit, 1% tax charged.This is from the man who promised that if you make under $250,000 per year, you will not see one penny of new tax. Keep your eyes and ears open, you will be amazed at what you learn.

Some will say aw it's just 1%... remember once the tax is there they can raise it at will.

In the Muslim faith a Muslim man can marry a child as young as 1 year old and have sexual intimacy with this child, consummating the marriage by 9. The dowry is given to the family in exchange for the woman (who becomes his slave) and for the purchase of the private parts of the woman, to use her as a toy.

Even though a woman is abused, she cannot obtain a divorce.
To prove rape, the woman must have (4) male witnesses.
Often after a woman has been raped, she is returned to her family and the family must return the dowry. The family has the right to execute her (an honor killing) to restore the honor of the family. Husbands can beat their wives 'at will' and the man does not have to say why he has beaten her.

The husband is permitted to have 4 wives and a temporary wife for an hour (prostitute) at his discretion.

The Shariah Muslim law controls the private as well as the public life of the woman.

In the Western World (America) Muslim men are starting to demand Shariah Law so the wife cannot obtain a divorce and he can have full and complete control of her. It is amazing and alarming how many of our sisters and daughters attending American Universities are now marrying Muslim men and submitting themselves and their children unsuspectingly to the Shariah law.

By passing this on, enlightened American women may avoid becoming a slave under Shariah Law.

Author and lecturer Nonie Darwish says the goal of radical Islamists is to impose Shariah law on the world, ripping Western law and liberty in two.

She recently authored the book, A Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law.

Darwish was born in Cairo and spent her childhood in Egypt and Gaza before immigrating to America in 1978, when she was eight years old. Her father died while leading covert attacks on Israel. He was a high-ranking Egyptian military officer stationed with his family in Gaza .

When he died, he was considered a "shahid," a martyr for jihad. His posthumous status earned Nonie and her family an elevated position in Muslim society.

But Darwish developed a skeptical eye at an early age. She questioned her own Muslim culture and upbringing. She converted to Christianity after hearing a Christian preacher on television.

In her latest book, Darwish warns about creeping sharia law - what it is, what it means, and how it is manifested in Islamic countries.

For the West, she says radical Islamists are working to impose sharia on the world. If that happens, Western civilization will be destroyed. Westerners generally assume all religions encourage a respect for the dignity of each individual. Islamic law (Sharia) teaches that non-Muslims should be subjugated or killed in this world.

Peace and prosperity for one's children is not as important as assuring that Islamic law rules everywhere in the Middle East and eventually in the world.

While Westerners tend to think that all religions encourage some form of the golden rule, Sharia teaches two systems of ethics - one for Muslims and another for non-Muslims. Building on tribal practices of the seventh century, Sharia encourages the side of humanity that wants to take from and subjugate others.

While Westerners tend to think in terms of religious people developing a personal understanding of and relationship with God, Sharia advocates executing people who ask difficult questions that could be interpreted as criticism.

It's hard to imagine, that in this day and age, Islamic scholars agree that those who criticize Islam or choose to stop being Muslim should be executed. Sadly, while talk of an Islamic reformation is common and even assumed by many in the West, such murmurings in the Middle East are silenced through intimidation.

While Westerners are accustomed to an increase in religious tolerance over time, Darwish explains how petro dollars are being used to grow an extremely intolerant form of political Islam in her native Egypt and elsewhere.

In twenty years there will be enough Muslim voters in the U.S. to elect the President by themselves! Rest assured they will do so. You can look at how they have taken over several towns in the USA, Dearborn Mich. is one and there are others.

I think everyone in the U.S. should be required to read this, but with the ACLU, there is no way this will be widely publicized, unless each of us sends it on!

It is too bad that so many are disillusioned with life and Christianity to accept Muslims as peaceful. Some may be but they have an army that is willing to shed blood in the name of Islam. The peaceful support the warriors with their finances and own kind of patriotism to their religion. While America is getting rid of Christianity from all public sites and erasing God from the lives of children the Muslims are planning a great jihad on America.

This is your chance to make a difference...! Pass it on to your email list or at least those you think will listen.

My car book says to roll down the windows to let out all the hot air before turning on A/C.

WHY ???????????

Car Air-conditioning -

No wonder more folks are dying from cancer than ever before. We wonder where this stuff comes from but here is an example that explains a lot of the cancer causing incidents.

Many people are in their cars first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, 7 days a week.

As I read this, it makes me feel guilty and ill.Please pass this on to as many people as possible.Guess its not too late to make some changes

Car A/C (Air Conditioning) MUST READ!!!Please do NOT t urn on A/C as soon as you enter the car.

Open the windows after you enter your car and then turn ON the AC after a couple of minutes.Here's why: According to research, the car dashboard, seats, air freshener emit Benzene, a Cancer causing toxin (carcinogen - take time to observe the smell of heated plastic in your car)In addition to causing cancer, Benzene poisons your bones, causes anemia and reduces white blood cells. Prolonged exposure will cause Leukemia, increasing the risk of cancer. Can also cause miscarriage.

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on..

No one was able to reach us all day. And, we were OKAY.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps

and then ride them down the hill,

only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem

We did not have Play stations, Nintendo ' s and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD ' s,

no surround-sound or CD ' s,

no cell phones,

no personal computers,

no Internet and no chat rooms.

WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.We would get spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping pong paddles, or just a bare hand and no one would call child services to report abuse.

We ate worms and mud pies

made from dirt, and

the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not poke out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend ' s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them.

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team.

Those who didn ' t had to learn

to deal with disappointment.

Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

These generations have produced some of the best

risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever.

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.

If YOU are one of them, CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.

While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave and lucky their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn ' t it ?

~

The quote of the month is by

Jay Leno:

'With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance? '

For those that prefer to think that God is not watching over us...go ahead and delete this.

Monday, July 5, 2010

I looked it up on Snopes and there is an article there stating the same as this E so I can not ok it but it is worth the read and do with it what you wish.

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TAKE THE TIME TO READ – YOU NEVER KNOW

I never heard of this one before, have you?

Asparagus -- Who knew ?

This is from a friend

My Mom had been taking the full-stalk canned styleasparagus that she pureed and she took 4 tablespoons inthe morning and 4 tablespoons later in the day. She didthis for over a month. She is on chemo pills for Stage 3lung cancer in the pleural area and her cancer cellcount went from 386 down to 125 as of this past week.Her oncologist said she does not need to see him for 3months.

THE ARTICLE:Several years ago, I had a man seeking asparagus for afriend who had cancer. He gave me a photocopied copyof an article, entitled, Asparagus for cancer 'printed inCancer News Journal, December 1979. I will share ithere, just as it was shared with me: I am abiochemist, and have specialized in the relation of dietto health or over 50 years. Several years ago, I learnedof the discovery of Richard R. Vensal, D.D.S. thatasparagus might cure cancer. Since then, I have workedwith him on his project We have accumulated a numberof favorable case histories. Here are a few examples:

Case No. 1, A man with an almost hopeless caseof Hodgkin's disease (cancer of the lymph glands) whowas completely incapacitated. Within 1 year of startingthe asparagus therapy, his doctors were unable todetect any signs of cancer, and he was back on aschedule of strenuous exercise.Case No. 2, a successful businessman 68 years oldwho suffered from cancer of the bladder for 16 years.After years of medical treatments, including radiationwithout improvement, he went on asparagus. Within 3months, examinations revealed that his bladder tumorhad disappeared and that his kidneys were normal.

Case No. 3, a man who had lung cancer. On March 5th 1971, hewas put on the operating table where they foundlung cancer so widely spread that it was inoperable.The surgeon sewed him up and declared his casehopeless. On April 5th he heard about the Asparagustherapy and immediately started taking it By August,x-ray pictures revealed that all signs of the cancer haddisappeared..He is back at his regular business routine.

Case No. 4, a woman who was troubled for a number ofyears with skin cancer. She finally developed differentskin cancers which were diagnosed by the actingspecialist as advanced. Within 3 months after startingon asparagus, her skin specialist said that her skinlooked fine and no more skin lesions. This womanreported that the asparagus therapy also cured herkidney disease, which started in 1949. She had over 10operations for kidney stones, and was receivinggovernment disability payments for an inoperable,terminal, kidney condition. She attributes the cure ofthis kidney trouble entirely to the asparagus.

I was not surprised at this result, as `The elements ofmateria medica', edited in1854 by a Professor at theUniversity of Pennsylvania , stated that asparagus wasused as a popular remedy for kidney stones. He evenreferred to experiments, in 1739, on the power ofasparagus in dissolving stones. Note the dates!We would have other case histories but the medicalestablishment has interfered with our obtaining someof the records. I am therefore appealing to readers tospread this good news and help us to gather a largenumber of case histories that will overwhelm themedical skeptics about this unbelievably simple andnatural remedy.

For the treatment, asparagus should be cookedbefore using, and therefore canned asparagus is justas good as fresh. I have corresponded with the twoleading canners of asparagus, Giant and Stokely, and Iam satisfied that these brands contain no pesticides orpreservatives.Place the cooked asparagus in a blender and liquefy tomake a puree, and store in the refrigerator. Give thepatient 4 full tablespoons twice daily, morning andevening. Patients usually show some improvement in2-4 weeks. It can be diluted with water and used as acold or hot drink. This suggested dosage is based onpresent experience, but certainly larger amounts can dono harm and may be needed in some cases. As abiochemist I am convinced of the old saying that `whatcures can prevent.' Based on this theory, my wife and Ihave been using asparagus puree as a beverage withour meals. We take 2 tablespoons diluted in water tosuit our taste with breakfast and with dinner. I takemine hot and my wife prefers hers cold. For years wehave made it a practice to have blood surveys taken aspart of our regular checkups. The last blood survey,taken by a medical doctor who specializes in thenutritional approach to health, showed substantialimprovements in all categories over the last one, andwe can attribute these improvements to nothing butthe asparagus drink.As a biochemist, I have made an extensive study of allaspects of cancer, and all of the proposed cures. As aresult, I am convinced that asparagus fits in betterwith the latest theories about cancer.

Asparagus contains a good supply of protein calledhistones, which are believed to be active in controllingcell growth.. For that reason, I believe asparagus canbe said to contain a substance that I call cell growthnormalizer. That accounts for its action on cancer andin acting as a general body tonic. In any event,regardless of theory, asparagus used as we suggest, isa harmless substance. The FDA cannot prevent youfrom using it and it may do you much good. It hasbeen reported by the US National Cancer Institute, thatasparagus is the highest tested food containingglutathione, which is considered one of the body'smost potent anticarcinogens and antioxidants.

Please send this article to everyone in your Address Book.The most unselfish act one can ever do is paying forwardall the kindness one has received, even to the mostundeserved person.